Mayor Bloomberg hit the campaign trail yesterday – piloting his own helicopter to the Catskills to try to win over Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jews vacationing there.

“I’m trying to reach out to everybody in New York City, and this is just a good chance on a Sunday morning with good weather to say hello to a community that has contributed an enormous amount to New York City,” said the mayor, who is a licensed chopper pilot.

“This is a part of New York State that needs economic development, and the Orthodox community coming here certainly contributes to the local economy.”

The mayor, who brought along gal pal Diana Taylor and Brooklyn Councilman Simcha Felder, made his first landing near Monticello in Sullivan County.

“He’s a good pilot. I brought my barf bag, but I didn’t need it,” Felder quipped.

Bloomberg had a bit of a shtick of his own.

At Kutchers Country Club, one woman joked, “You look better in person than in TV.” Bloomberg replied: “That’s because we used Brad Pitt as a stand-in.”

But not everyone was smiling

At Camp Morris in Woodridge, vacationer Joel Shoshein, vowed that Bloomberg would not win the Flatbush-Borough Park vote unless the controversial “quality of life” ticket blitz stopped in the two neighborhoods.

“I may stay home altogether on election day,” he grumped.

The mayor also visited a girl’s and a boy’s camp.

“It’s the equivalent of Derek Jeter coming to Bensonhurst,” Felder said, causing the crowd to erupt into laughter.

At Camp Bnos for girl’s in Liberty, Bloomberg told hundreds of star struck girls that when he went to camp as a boy he told his mother that, “the food at camp was better than the food at home,” but, he said his mother wasn’t bothered because she didn’t like to cook anyway.

Hershy Fischman, who lives in Borough Park was also glad to meet the mayor.

“He’s coming to see how we vacation on the weekends,” he said, referring to the mayor’s weekend getaways to his million-dollar house in Bermuda.

Later, Bloomberg flew back to march in the Washington Heights Carnival del Boulevard Parade.